The Bridge, Poems 1939–1944 (Signed copy)
Signed by Ruth Pitter
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Printing Details
First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 19 × 12.5cm, 60pp.
This copy has been signed and dedicated by Ruth Pitter to the half-title, "To Mr G F Gardner of the Carbon Machine Shop M.C.C. with kind regards and remembrances from Ruth Pitter, July 1945."
"Though these poems were written in and about London between early 1940 and late 1944, and though some of them refer to the war, they are not exclusively, nor even primarily, war poems. The negative personal experience of that time—fear, sorrow, anxiety, horror, dreariness, a new poverty, the bitterness of even an accepted compulsion, the loss of some of our dearest landmarks—are felt as ephemeral: and apart from one attempt on The Cygnet, the universal evils are not expressed, perhaps because not yet realised. The themes are still largely those of the earlier pieces; the lives of the soil, of the heart, of the spirit, that continue to enlarge themselves by incessant conflict; touched also by reverence for what may be called common heroism, which no one living in this city, at that time, can have failed to feel."
Condition
The book is in very good condition, the dustwrapper has a little edgewear but has not been price clipped.
Price
£30.00
